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(a) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege, as to mill site, etc. (b) The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion.

The quality of being absent-minded. H. Miller.

which constitute it; -- opposed to Ant: concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word. J. S. Mill.

withdrawal. A wrongful abstraction of wealth from certain members of the community. J. S. Mill.

o this difference it is right that advertence should be had in regulating taxation. J. S. Mill.

A second growth or crop, or (metaphorically) development. J. S. Mill.

In motion; in the act of going; as, to set a mill agoing.

Of or pertaining to aldehyde; as, aldehydic acid. Miller.

llegorical being . . . that kind of language which says one thing, but means another. Max Miller. Al`le*gor"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Al`le*gor"ic*al*ness, n.

erests of others; brotherly kindness; -- opposed to egoism or selfishness. [Recent] J. S. Mill.

Seed of the Hibiscus abelmoschus, somewhat resembling millet, brought from Egypt and the West Indies, and having a flavor like that of musk; musk seed. Chambers.

king or becoming better; improvement; melioration. "Amelioration of human affairs." J. S. Mill.

To punish, in general; to mulct. Millions of spirits for his fault amerced Of Heaven. Milton. Shall by him be amerced with penance due. Spenser.

ttention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder. [Obs.] Camillus set upon the Gauls when they were amused in receiving their gold. Holland. Being amused with grief, fear, and fright, he could not find the house. Fuller.

h has sent out colonies is termed the mother country, the expression is analogical. J. S. Mill.

sugar cane, the Johnson grass, the Aleppo grass, the broom corn, and the durra, or Indian millet. Several East Indian species, as A. nardus and A. schonanthus, yield fragrant oils, used in perfumery.

. The Homeric mythology, as well as the Homeric language, has surely its antecedents. Max Miller.

ieves the aristocracy should govern. His whole family are accused of being aristocrats. Romilly.

The principles of aristocrats. Romilly.

A distilled water from a variety of aromatic plants, as rosemary, millefoil, etc.; -- originally used as a vulnerary in gunshot wounds. Parr.